Monthly Archives: December 2011

OHH YEAAHHH!!! There are some things from the 80′s that you just cant get away with anymore. Smoking indoors, pants tucked into socks, and of course the 80′s Spin. Not that many people know about the 80′s Spin, but it is something that I have begun to notice more and more while watching vintage movies and commercials from this period. What IS the 80′s Spin?? Well, if you watch closely, you can sometimes spot funloving teenagers do a Michael Jackson-like spin just out of nowhere! Yeah! You know what Im talking about.

So, I dont know where this behavior started and if it was widespread, or just isolated to TV and movie actors, but it eventually branched out into a wide range of other strange motions such as walking backwards, sitting on chairs backwards, jumping in the air and clicking your heels together, and conveying onesself, physically, in an all around squirrelly manner. Makes me want to get some stonewashed denim and a pair of hightops!

This Camaro ad from 1985 is so full of 80′s Spins, its ridiculous. Also see if you can spot the TWO 80′s Spins by Michael J Fox in the Diet Pepsi ad below. If you know of any other great examples of the 80′s Spin, post links in the comments!

Lots of new logo and flyer work coming through lately. This is in progress for DJ RPEG in NYC. I hope to see this in print sometime soon! For this one I experimented with doing very hard geometry by hand and then scanning and vectorizing it, for a more imperfect look. Looks waay cooler than doing it all perfect in illustator. As my good friend Fernando says, “hand drawn is ALWAYS the way to go.”